The Propagation of Shocks in a Tube
Wednesday, February 22, 1989 4:00 p.m. Dr. Wayne Wright Physics Department Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin One of the best known predictions of nonlinear acoustics deals with propagation distortion of plane waves. An initially sinusoidal wave, for example, is expected to distort…